Example sentences of "have [verb] on a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , Exmoor National Park has decided on a more active policy of land purchase as the only sure way of conserving existing agricultural landscapes . |
| 2 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 3 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 4 | The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note . |
| 5 | First , practitioners , lacking the time and resources to carry out exhaustive analyses , may have to operate on a more limited , probabilistic basis . |
| 6 | Luce had n't intended to take it ; her lips had parted on a purely reflex action . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 8 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 9 | Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps . |
| 10 | ‘ Good morning to you , Sir Enchanter , ’ he said , and Fenella , crouched behind folds upon folds of living colour , half suffocated , heard at once , that he had put on a slightly simple voice . |
| 11 | ‘ We had begun on a totally false premise , ’ he said at length . |
| 12 | Communists have participated on a very small scale in the governments of Sweden and France , but apart from Italy are nowhere the dominant party of the proletariat , let alone the leaders of a cross-class anti-monopoly alliance . |
| 13 | You have to put on a completely different hat . ’ |
| 14 | These and related observations have been interpreted to mean that " deep dyslexics ' are unable to employ a phonological code , that is , they can not decode a word in terms of its sound structure , and have to rely on a purely visual code in retrieving words from their internal dictionary or lexicon ( Warrington and Shallice , 1979 ; Coltheart , 1980a ) . |